You have learned about the speaking and listening skills involved in effective communication. Healthy relationships depend upon these skills. Family members and friends need to be able to share their thoughts and feelings with one another and to know that they are being understood.
Communication and relationships are related, but it’s hard to know exactly how. For example, does good communication lead to a healthy relationship? Or does a healthy relationship lead to good communication? What about poor communication and unhealthy relationships?
For this week’s activity, you will write a dramatic dialogue with stage directions. Dramatic here just means “to be acted out,” not “overly emotional” unless you want it to be. Your characters’ communication—their words and actions—will show they have either a healthy or an unhealthy relationship.
Click the Activity button below to access the worksheet where you will record your work for the rest of the week. When you have completed this assignment, submit it to your teacher.
Your work on this assignment will be evaluated according to the following rubric.
| Points | Criteria | |
|---|---|---|
| Part A 40 Points |
5 | For each box in the template, write complete, specific, detailed information to plan your dialogue |
| Part B 60 Points |
15 | You follow the format guidelines for stage writing. |
| 15 | You effectively use stage directions showing characters’ gestures and body language. | |
| 15 | You choose characters’ words carefully to demonstrate effective or ineffective communication and healthy or unhealthy relationships. | |
| 15 | You proofread you dialogue for correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation that accurately reflects each character’s speech. |
